Is there a lightweight FOSS printer driver for standard old USB Laserjets?

Every Windows since 3.1 had instant plugnplay with any HP Laserjet. The HPLIP driver takes several minutes to download and install, and then I have to reinstall it every time I print a week later. Is there any lightweight basic FOSS driver for Linux, such as the HP Universal Print Driver (UPD) for Windows?

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Serious flaw that lurked in sudo for 9 years hands over root privileges
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/serious-flaw-that-lurked-in-sudo-for-9-years-finally-gets-a-patch/

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My dad and I completing our second home NAS running freeNAS with a total of 80tb ready for movies and music with plenty of streaming capability.
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Libre Graphics World - Week recap
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/week-recap-3-february-2020

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Introducing libeconf - Bringing systemd-like configuration layering to everything else
https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/ilbsclte/

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M0E-lnx (VectorLinux): I think most would agree that the linux desktop has evolved a lot [...] We are at the point where it's almost impossible to build a relevant linux without some systemd component. Systemd is now entangled into places you would never expect to see it.
http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=19237.msg106754

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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - February 05, 2020

Welcome to r/linux! If you're new to Linux or trying to get started this thread is for you. Get help here or as always, check out r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs

This megathread is for all your question needs. As we don't allow questions on r/linux outside of this megathread, please consider using r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs for the best solution to your problem.

Ask your hardware requests here too or try r/linuxhardware!

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Fastest most minimalist browser?

I have been experimenting with the suckless browser Surf lately and was wondering what are the fastest browsers that your can run on linux.

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Play Tetris on Linux Terminal
http://ee-fans.com/play-tetris-on-linux-terminal/

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Clustering a full Linux OS across multiple Raspberry Pi’s

Just thinking aloud here. Being that we have full blown docker images with complete Linux OS support, how would this look on something like the following:

4 Pi’s (arbitrary number)
Running Kubernetes (maybe, this may not be the right solution)
Running a docker Linux image

Could you present a shell to a user, and somehow have all 4 Pi’s act as a cohesive OS? The intent would be that the user was no more the wiser to this division of labor, but was able to capitalize on more hardware capabilities. To the user, it would just look like he/she has:

16 USB ports (4 per Pi)
4 GbE ports
16G of RAM (assuming 4 per Pi)
Etc.

Is there a platform that is already able to accomplish something like this? For background, I’ve never used Kubernetes for multiple machines.

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Many uses for Core scheduling
https://lwn.net/Articles/799454/

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Let's talk Linux & common methods! All suggestions appreciated!

Hey everyone! So I'm sure you've all heard this before, and I'm sure it's beyond simple, so just try to bare with me.

I've been looking at Linux and different distros for a little while now. Over the past months I was more concerned with switching from being a windows user for my entire life, to something new. I'm beyond ready to do so, especially after having to reformat and wipe my entire device due to a recent severe malware attack. The only things on my PC now are default factory programs. I was looking for a good guide or the best method of running a Linux OS on my PC. My thought now is dual booting, but wanted to hear some pros and cons from people who have tried this and other methods. Any and all help is much appreciated. Looking for more of a step by step guide being that it's all new to me.

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Boot Debian / Linux on a USB stick

Hi there,

I have been using a USB 3.0 stick with 64Gb as a portable debian for a long time.

So far everything works well, even with the encryption there are no problems. The only problem is that the system or individual applications often freeze. It then takes a short moment, or a minute, for the system to continue running at this point. The main effect occurs when I start new applications or transfer data. So I assume that it is due to the read / write access to the stick. With an SSD via a USB3.0 adapter, I don't have these problems, so it works like on a built-in SSD.



My question now: Is this a general problem with booting via a USB stick or is it more due to my stick and I should buy a new one?



Thank you for your advice and experience.

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The 8 Smallest Linux Distros That Are Lightweight and Need Almost No Space
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-distro-space/

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Tablet for Linux

Hello,
I'm looking for a tablet with good battery . I want install Linux on it. Thanks for any advice guys :)

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Turning an old Windows Netbook into a Linux computer

I am having an old Netbook, Asus Eee PC 1000HE, specifications can be seen here: [https://www.cnet.com/products/asus-eee-pc-1000he/specs/](https://www.cnet.com/products/asus-eee-pc-1000he/specs/) and want to turn that one into a Linux computer, but being no expert (although with some experience in Raspbian) I have no idea how to proceed. Any advice will be greatly appreciated as I'll have a lot of fun with a Linux Netbook and this Windows crab is of no use to me at all (and extremely slow anyway).

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Im high as fuckkk

Shout out to everyone just now getting linux to jailbreak with checkra1n!

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Dual Boot Help (Win10 and CentOS8)

Please help me guys. I'm losing my mind trying to dual boot my machine.

Here is the specs of my machine:

- acer 4755g
- SSD for windows 10 and HDD for CentOS 8 (partition, not whole disk is used)

**Problem:**


- CentOS grub cannot detect windows 10 bootloader.

**Here are the steps that I have done to correct it:**

- Installed ntfs-3g and ran sudo grub2-mkconfig > /dev/null. It still does not see the windows boot loader. In fact, sudo grub2-mkconfig > /dev/null returns nothing.

- Also tried to manually add chainloder on grub, still nothing.

**Possible reason for the problem**

- Windows 10 is installed using BIOS and CentOS is using UEFI

I'm just confused on how CentOS managed to install UEFI on my machine. I'm pretty sure that my machine only supports BIOS. Note: To make the bootable USB, I used rufus with the MBR option.

**FINAL NOTE:**


I think if I convert the bootloader of CentOS from UEFI to BIOS, this problem will be solved.
But can it be converted and How?

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When is Firefox/Chrome/Chromium going to support hardware-accelerated video decoding?

We are in the year 2020, with Linux growing stronger as ever, and we still do not have a popular browser that supports something as simple as hardware-accelerated video decoding (YouTube video for example).

I use Ubuntu on both of my PCs (AMD Ryzen 1700/RX 580 on the desktop, and AMD Ryzen 2500U/Vega 8 on laptop), and I need to limit all of my video playback to 1440p60 maximum, since 4K video pretty much kills the smoothness of the video. This is really pissing me off, since the Linux community is growing at a rate that we have never seen before, with many big companies bringing their apps to Linux (all distros), but something as basic as VAAPI/VDPAU support on browsers is lacking up until this day in stable releases, which on a laptop it is definitely needed, because of power needs (battery). Firefox should at least be the one that supported it, but even they don't.

The Dev branch of Chromium has hardware-accelerated video decoding, which works perfectly fine on Ubuntu 19.10, with Mesa 19.2.8, but they don't have any plans to move it to the Beta branch, and even less to the Stable release (from what I have been able to find, maybe I'm wrong here).

In a era where battery on laptops is something as important as ever, and with most Linux distros losing to Windows on the battery consumption subject (power management on Linux has never been really that great, to me at least), most people won't want to run Linux on their laptops, since this is a big issue. I have to keep limiting myself with video playback while on battery, because the brower has to use CPU-decoding, which obviously eats battery like it's nothing.

This is something that the entire community should be really vocal about, since it affects everyone, specially we that use Linux on mobile hardware. I think that if we make enough noise, Mozilla and Google (other browsers too), might look deeper into supporting something that is standard on other OSs for more that 10 years already (since the rise of HTML5, to be more specific). Come on people, we can get this fixed!

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migrating OS (ubuntu in EFI mode) between different types of drives? (SATA m.2 ssd to NVMe)

wondering what the best way to go about this would be. i'm out of the game when it comes to imaging software n such. my theoretical options from what i can think are:

1) dd raw sector by sector image

2) "smart" image like fz, macrium, that one that starts with a, etc

3) just making a partition on the destination drive and copying / to it. this seems like the "safest" way to me?

post any of these i understand i'd have to reinstall grub because sata and nvme use different device handles (/dev/uhnvmesomethingidr90293948 as opposed to /dev/sd*). sound correct? sounds correct to me but im just some guy.

i do not know if nowadays there's imaging software that handles this kind of migration automatically. but i think i can manage to run grub-install on a drive if needed.

here is a screenshot of my drive arrangement. very simple, no encryption, plenty of free space and they're both 256gb drives in the first place. only snafu is im not intimately familiar with if it being install in EFI mode could throw any sticks in the spokes.

EDIT: oops here screenshot https://imgur.com/YcGKrBu.png its sda

i just remembered the one that starts with a is acronis.

any input well appreciated! this is both for my sake and that of potential googlers. hi from the past.

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End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux
https://coreos.com/os/eol/

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